'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Here are some interesting comparisons on the electoral vote:
2000 Bush: 271 Gore: 266
Split of 5 electoral votes, with lingering dispute as to whether Bush actually won or not
2004 Bush: 286 Kerry: 252
Split of 34 electoral votes
2008 (incomplete returns) Obama: 349 McCain: 159
Split of 190 electoral votes with only 30 left in play.
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God dammit.
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crap.
Split of 190 electoral votes with only 30 left in play.
Very true. It looks like a 2:1 victory. Also note that the last President to win a higher proportion of the popular vote was Bush Sr. That's no small achievement. This looks very much like a realignment election to me.
::gives billytea a scrapple high-five::
Sorry to hear about Prop 8... I know in MA that the State Representatives had to do a whole lot of political maneuvering to keep similar proposals for constitutional amendment off the ballot, which seems to have given Bay Staters enough time to get used to how equal marriage actually works in practice. (i.e. no collapse of civilization as we know it, Biblical wrath, cats and dogs living together, et cet.)
The fight ain't over. My heart goes out to all whose marriages, who friends' and families' marriages are affected materially by this setback.
Theodosia speaks for me.
Good morning, New World Order. And Happy Birthday, CaBil!
CA-istas, I'm so sorry about Prop 8-- cold comfort that it was at least far closer than Prop 2 was in Florida.
Love this picture of the White House. It really does look like the storming of the Bastille.
gives billytea a scrapple high-five::
The messiest high five ever!
No, wait. That would be the Philly cheesesteak high five.
The fight ain't over. My heart goes out to all whose marriages, who friends' and families' marriages are affected materially by this setback.
So true. The forces of intolerances are pulling all this crap because they know they're losing ground. They should still be losing it faster.
On this note, reversing Prop 8: it's no more onerous than passing it in the first place, right? A straight plurality in a referendum? (I know it may take a while, but I'm sure demographics are on the right side in this struggle.)
I went to bed last night and had technical problems but right now I'm listening to Obama's speech.
I can finally say again (or at least in 77 days), that I respect not only the office of the President but also the President himself. I can say that I respect the adminstration.
I can listen to a President speak because he's intelligent and doesn't look like he's a stoned frog. (seriously all I can see when I see Bush is a stoned frog).